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The younger males who have been accompanying a 22-year-old British nationwide when he was killed in a horrific personal helicopter accident on a Greek island on Monday are furious in regards to the story being spun by Greek authorities.
Jack Fenton died when he was struck by the rotor tail of considered one of two personal helicopters the group had rented to return to the airport from Mykonos. They have been presupposed to fly house to London on Tuesday on a personal jet rented by the daddy of considered one of his pals.
Authorities in Greece insist the group had been escorted contained in the terminal and that the younger man had his cellphone to his ear and didn't hear warnings to not go close to the spinning blade, which they are saying he was “approaching at a fast tempo.”
Jack Stanton-Gleaves, who was in the identical helicopter as Fenton, instructed the Each day Mail the Greeks’ model of occasions was not true, and that nobody gave them any directions about what to do as soon as they exited the personal helicopter.
“There have been no directions given when exiting the helicopter and nobody escorted us into the lounge. All they did was open the doorways for us,” he stated. “We disembarked by ourselves and nobody stopped Jack from going to the again of the helicopter.”
He stated reviews that his lifeless good friend was on his cellphone are categorically false. “He wasn’t on his cellphone and why he turned to the again of the helicopter I don’t know,” he stated.
Fenton’s sister, Daisy, stated her brother would have by no means completed something dangerous. “This was Jack’s first ever helicopter experience,” she instructed the Each day Mail. “So you possibly can think about how cautious and cautious, if something, he was.” She additionally stated he was not the sort to flout guidelines. “All the remaining, of him operating again on the tarmac and violating protocols, is garbage.”
She conceded that nobody might ever know why he was returning to the helicopter, however stated it was to not take a selfie. “Nobody is aware of precisely what led him again. Maybe he forgot one thing. However the line that he went again to take a selfie is garbage. It’s a lie.”
Greek authorities have opened an investigation into the accident.